Guinea vs South Sudan: Number of child deaths per woman

Guinea
0.3935 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
South Sudan
0.411 under-five deaths per woman
in 2024
Guinea rank
7th
South Sudan rank
6th

Number of child deaths per woman over time

  • Guinea
  • South Sudan
0246193719802024

How they compare

South Sudan currently reports 0.411 under-five deaths per woman against 0.3935 under-five deaths per woman in Guinea, a difference of 0.0176 under-five deaths per woman.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was South Sudan ahead.

Globally, Guinea ranks 7th and South Sudan ranks 6th of 200 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of child deaths per woman
Unit
under-five deaths per woman
Source
Gapminder (2015); UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
200 places, 16,060 data points, 1800–2024
Last refreshed

The fertility rate (average number of children per woman) multiplied by the under-five mortality rate (probability of dying before age five).